1. What else can this mean?
2. Who can help me?
3. What am I grateful for?
4. What's my end game?
5. What can I learn from this?
I read this list on a website a little while ago. I just now tried to Google it up again and can't find the original posting. It is not my idea. I just try to use it every day.
For many years I have been interested in, for lack of a better word, religions. The devices & disciplines we use to find comfort in our lives. At first, this was because I was raised Methodist and just went to church because everyone else I knew went to church. Then it morphed and deformed into extreme curiousity about how other people do it.
"Do it." Meaning everything. Extreme curiousity about other people's lives. Where they put the couch, how they argue with a friend, what they worship, what gets them through the night.
Me, personally? I have settled on Buddhism. I am still learning and do not claim expertise.
I like these 5 questions listed above. I like comfort systems which use questions. I like to get them in there, and let them bubble up.
Number 1: What else can this mean?
I'm stuck on something, something hooked into me. I took a comment about me that was not too flattering to heart. Someone pulls out in front of me as I drive. I cannot get the last stupid argument I had out of my head. Insert your nagging irritation here.
So...what else can this mean?
Basically, it means the focus isn't always on me. Drivers are not conspiring to piss me off. My headaches are not all brain tumors. Sometimes a banana is just a banana, Anna.
Even if my alternate reason is slightly silly, what helps is just to change perspective and step back and ask....what else can this mean?
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